The study in the European Respiratory Journal used advanced spatial mapping techniques to compare healthy lung tissues and ...

Plasma cells originate in lymphoid (immune) tissues and then migrate to protected sites throughout the body, where they produce large amounts of antibodies in response to infection-related substances.

Plasma cells with characteristics of long-lived cells, and factors necessary for long term survival, are present in the salivary glands of patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS), report ...